different between heavyset vs demonstration
heavyset
English
Alternative forms
- heavy-set
Etymology
heavy +? set
Adjective
heavyset (comparative more heavyset, superlative most heavyset)
- (of a person) Having a large, solid, imposing bodily appearance; overweight.
- 1989, "One Bear Of a Soviet Politician," Time, 20 Mar.,
- No Soviet political figure has been as irreverently outspoken about Soviet life or as ambitious to change it as Boris Yeltsin, 58, a heavyset, 6-ft. 2-in. man from Sverdlovsk in the Ural Mountains.
- 1989, "One Bear Of a Soviet Politician," Time, 20 Mar.,
Usage notes
- Heavyset suggests corpulence, and sometimes a squat appearance, but not extreme obesity.
Synonyms
- stocky, stout, thickset
Translations
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demonstration
English
Etymology
From Middle English demonstracioun, from Old French demonstration, from Latin demonstrationem, from demonstrare (“show or explain”), from de- (“of or concerning”) + monstrare (“show”).Morphologically demonstrate +? -ion
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?m?n?st?e???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
demonstration (countable and uncountable, plural demonstrations)
- The act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something.
- (prison slang) A prisoner's act of beating up another prisoner. (clarification of this definition is needed)
- An event at which something will be demonstrated.
- I have to give a demonstration to the class tomorrow, and I'm ill-prepared.
- Expression of one's feelings by outward signs.
- A public display of group opinion, such as a protest march.
- A show of military force.
- A mathematical proof.
- a. 1697, John Aubrey, Brief Lives, s.v. Thomas Hobbes:
- He read the proposition. […] So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition,; which proposition he read.
- a. 1697, John Aubrey, Brief Lives, s.v. Thomas Hobbes:
Related terms
- demonstrable
- demonstrate
- demonstrator
- monster
- remonstration
- demo
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ?????????? (demonsutor?shon)
Translations
Anagrams
- nonmeditators
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?dem?nsd????o?n/
Noun
demonstration c (singular definite demonstrationen, plural indefinite demonstrationer)
- demonstration
Declension
Further reading
- “demonstration” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “demonstration” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
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